Can someone check and see if the moon is currently near perigee? It seemed on the large side this morning.
On 7/23/2013 6:25 AM, Chuck Hards wrote:
Can someone check and see if the moon is currently near perigee? It seemed on the large side this morning.
Hi Chuck, It was at perigee a couple/three weeks ago... it was also at "full" stage, and looked huge. Norm
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The last lunar perigee was on July 21 at 20:28 UT. The distance was 358401 km. That is only 1412 km farther away than the "supermoon", but it was also 21 hours away from the full moon. Your observation should correlate pretty well with the "supermoon". From: Norm Hansen <norm.hansen@mtngreen.net> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 1:50 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Moon On 7/23/2013 6:25 AM, Chuck Hards wrote:
Can someone check and see if the moon is currently near perigee? It seemed on the large side this morning.
Hi Chuck, It was at perigee a couple/three weeks ago... it was also at "full" stage, and looked huge. Norm
Thanks Brent. It did look larger than normal, but was also getting low, so I wasn't sure if it was actually a few percent closer, or if it was the "moon effect"- a full moon just appears larger when near the horizon. On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Brent Watson <brentjwatson@yahoo.com>wrote:
The last lunar perigee was on July 21 at 20:28 UT. The distance was 358401 km. That is only 1412 km farther away than the "supermoon", but it was also 21 hours away from the full moon. Your observation should correlate pretty well with the "supermoon".
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